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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by endriju on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @08:40AM (#7297492)
I lost 2.5 btc. If someone with better understanding of the situation on mtgox could answer the other question, it will be very welcome.
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by valarauca1 on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @08:42AM (#7297508)
I lost 1.5BTC I purchased as a 'long term' investment or even to use them when BTC became usable.

Now I guess their gone.

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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by jlt on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @09:02AM (#7297611)
I, unfortunately, lost 58.2 BTC.
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by binxbolling on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @11:15AM (#7298422)
That really sucks, and you have my sympathy. When/how did you first find out, and if you don't mind me asking, how have you been taking it so far?
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by jlt on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @12:26PM (#7298956)
Thanks. Found out this morning, when I came back from a vacation. It sucks, but it's nothing I can't rebuild.
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by bennyg on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @07:05PM (#7301714)
If you don't mind me asking, at what price did you buy them at?
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by jlt on Thursday February 27, 2014 @03:40AM (#7311077)
I didn't; I mined them. It doesn't bother me immensely, as the total amount of coins I have mined amounts to 1,987.
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by binxbolling on Monday March 03, 2014 @04:58PM (#7336815)
You have... a million dollars worth of bitcoin? Goddamn.
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by joshdance on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @10:38AM (#7298144)
Sorry. That is the most I have heard.
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by Avalaxy on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @10:16PM (#7302642)
Then you haven't been to Reddit. There's a guy there who lost 4000-ish coins.
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by Avalaxy on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @10:14PM (#7302637)
Ah not much, around 1.7 bitcoins. Bought them pretty cheap (<$300) in the recent weeks because I wanted to take the bet. Turned out I lost the bet. But that's not a big deal, I made around 1 bitcoin profit through btc.sx.
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by gesman on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @10:05AM (#7297937)
0.

I used to mine bitcoins and have them sent to MtGox (in tiny fractions of course) but stopped doing it long before as this process became too inefficient.

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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by KingMob on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @05:57PM (#7301310)
0. Mt. Gox was a publicly visible target. My laptop is much less visible. (Not that it matters, I sold off all my coins last August.)
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by blueskin_ on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @09:15AM (#7297669)
0.

BTC that are in some service aren't in your own wallet and so aren't secure.

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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by endriju on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @09:25AM (#7297731)
Well, security is relative. On mtgox, they were more secure to price volatility, since you could sell them any time. But how can one be sure if any service is secure to the theft.
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by dholowiski on Thursday February 27, 2014 @02:26PM (#7314338)
0. Mine are all in cold storage, where any sizable amount of Bitcoin should be.
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by codemonkeymike on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @11:17AM (#7298437)
0, Because I bought my BTC on Bitstamp and then put them in a private wallet.
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by mtgoxloser on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @07:39AM (#7304545)
Unfortunately more than $500,000 in USD.
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by endriju on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @07:53AM (#7304607)
I am sorry. This is more money then most people earn in their lifetime. I hope your other investments are safe and doing good.
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Re:Ask HN: How many bitcoins did you have in your mtgox wall... by mtgoxloser on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @12:51PM (#7306369)
Like many other people, I had been trying to withdraw for months.

This represents more than half of my Bitcoin ventures, but fortunately I was able to afford this loss.

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